Are there any good software to catalogue your clips with keywords? Would be even better if there was possible to put keywords at time positions...

Good Morning,

I have seen this discussed here a few times and as i recall, a lot of people simply set up a spread sheet.

it would be nice to have a specific program to make it a no-brainer job.

Yeah, this is exactly what I've been wondering. There has to be some way.

Are there any good software to catalogue your clips with keywords? Would be even better if there was possible to put keywords at time positions...

I have not used this product, but by coincidence found someone on Craig's List looking for a video editor fluent in its use; called CatDv Pro, it provides for annotation and metadata and a bunch of other stuff, might be worth a look: CatDV 8.1 - Professional Edition (http://www.squarebox.co.uk/professional.html)

Lightroom 3 & Aperture 3 can both catalog video. You could also try iMovie. At the file level, Snow Leopard and Windows 7 allow you to add keywords to each clip.

I just started using CatDV last night and so far o good. Coming from a Photographer background, we are spoiled when it comes to DAM (Digital Asset Management) software. But when I started looking for DAMs for Video I was shocked to see how little there was and what was there how immature it is.

From my very first use, key-wording, adding comments, tagging and such is fairly straight forward and a very fast search engine accompanies it. I am very pleased.

Now to answer your question about key-wording a specific location: I have not done this, but what I understand from what I have read, you can and it has something to do with sub-clips (I think?)

"When you play the clip you can make a selection by marking In and Out points. You can then create a new secondary clip from the selection, or split a clip into two. (You can also do the opposite and merge two clips together, if a scene boundary was misidentified for example.)" Source: CatDV Tour - Clip details window (3 of 13) (http://www.squarebox.co.uk/tour3.html)

So it's something to look at...

Probably won't be much help if you're not using Vegas, but Vegas has a built in "Media Manager" that allows you to tag different clips, as well as organize them in catagories (such as close up, wideshot, etc.). Or at least I believe that's how it works. Never had much use for it yet, so I'm not very familiar with it.